The First Half

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I thought, "God, if this is the decline, if this is ageing — by the time I'm 60 I'm going to be knackered. As Maisie Hill, a women's health expert, explains in her new book Perimenopause Power: Navigating Your Hormones: 'Perimenopause is likely to start in your forties, but for some it will begin in your thirties.

This week, Ade Adepitan, Gabby Logan, Kerry Godliman and Tom Read Wilson give Sara Cox their reading recommendations.While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability: pretty, dutiful homemaker Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father with a career in the Foreign Office.

After this nothing was the same for Logan, and she made a vow to achieve something, to have something, that would make the pain of his death worthwhile.My aim was not to humiliate my father or be condescending, it was to try and share the frustrations - and people know if they’ve lived with anybody with addictions - that you can’t ever sort it out. Could relate to lots in this book as Gabby is a couple of years older than me and spent many years in Leeds. Not that I’m going to go around getting myself into a deep transcendental state giving people messages from the other side, but I feel like we could all be a bit more connected. Yet for all of the darker episodes in her life, Logan’s ‘half time talk of a book’ isn’t of the boot throwing ‘hairdryer treatment’ variety and there are plenty of laughs along the way and it’s particularly evocative of her happy Seventies childhood when footballer’s wages weren’t of the eye watering scale they are now and family holidays were spent at the Holiday Inn in Slough and her first job first job was at her Nana Sheila’s greasy spoon café opposite Elland Road, shelling eggs at 6am, washing the concrete step with boiling water and serving grumpy truckers cups of tea.

She was also a part of the media team during the BBC's coverage of the 2016 UEFA European Championship in France. Logan played netball at school and at university and also competed in the high jump, but the peak of her sporting career was when she placed 11th in rhythmic gymnastics representing Wales at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland. I say he looks great, but he had a sailing holiday with his mates recently and came back really brown but also with a few kilos of rose wine - so he needs to get back into the gym, for his mental state too, and he’s on that mission now. In this, her first ever book, Gabby takes us through the story of her life through the turning points and important events that have led her to where she is today.Key apologised for his 'prehistoric banter' at the time, saying: 'Such comments were made off-air to work colleagues, and were, of course, never intended to be broadcast. Go back to what your mother taught you': TV presenter Susannah Constantine on the six money-saving hacks that helped her cut energy use on laundry by a THIRD! These are all aspects that our wonderful guests - Elizabeth Day, Phil Neville, Rob Rinder, Jane Fallon, Kelly Cates, Kirsty Gallacher, Kenny Logan, sobriety advocate Matt Pink, and Professor Rose Anne Kenny – all touch on in this week’s episode. She attempted to brush it off with a smile but has conceded in her new book that she was "dying inside" as she endured a tough education at the major broadcaster. When you look at it now it feels insane even saying it, but it was so powerful and real, there was no doubt in my mind what was happening and of course Tamsin and I had a real bond from then.